US 7,403,694 B2
Information recording medium, method for recording information, and method for reproduction information
Koji Maruyama, Yokohama (Japan); Yoshiyuki Ishizawa, Yokohama (Japan); Hideo Ando, Tokyo (Japan); Shinichi Kikuchi, Yokohama (Japan); and Kazuhiko Taira, Yokohama (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki-shi (Japan)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/175,402.
Application 10/175402 is a division of application No. 10/125599, filed on Apr. 19, 2002, granted, now 6,532,336.
Application 10/125599 is a division of application No. 09/233027, filed on Jan. 20, 1999, granted, now 6,385,389.
Claims priority of application No. 10-009903 (JP), filed on Jan. 21, 1998.
Prior Publication US 2002/0159764 A1, Oct. 31, 2002
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 5/91 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 386—95  [386/125] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
5. An information recording medium configured to have data recorded thereon and data reproduced therefrom by an information recording/reproducing apparatus, the information recording medium comprising:
a pair of transparent substrates;
an adhesive layer;
a center hole going through the transparent substrates;
a clamp area being located on an outer circumference side of the center hole;
a recording layer being provided on a surface of one of the transparent substrates;
a lead-in area being on the recording layer;
a data area being located on the circumference side of the lead in area and being on the recording layer;
a first area, on the data area, being configured to store a managing file including management information, and
a second area, on the data area, being configured to store a video file including video information,
wherein said video file is configured to store a plurality of video objects, said video objects including object units, each object unit including at least one of a video pack in which video data is recorded and an audio pack in which audio data is recorded,
said management information includes disc representative picture information for a disc representative picture, and a plurality of program chain information including cell information representing cells,
at least one of said program chain information designates respective cell reproduction order, one of said cells refers to one of said video objects,
said disc representative picture information includes first information regarding a program chain number, a cell number, a picture point which describes time information for presenting said disc representative picture, and second information regarding a time when said disc representative picture information was made, and
the program chain number is set to zero when the disc representative picture exists, but the second information regarding a time is set “FFh” when the disc representative picture does not exist.